Amit Chatterjee (Hara, Inc.) - Entrepreneurial Lessons: Find Value and Make Impact

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Amit Chatterjee, founder and CEO of Hara, the growing energy management solutions company, shares the wisdom of his entrepreneurial experience. He covers an array of topics vital to launching and running a successful enterprise, including the importance of product innovation, new market development, thriving in a competitive landscape, and the critical importance of building a brilliant team.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.7	So what makes Amit Chatterjee so special is a few things.
0:23.6	One is this company that he's founded and he's CEO of is truly a 21st century.
0:30.6	It's at the intersection of software or information technologies and clean technology.
0:36.6	So that's very interesting.
0:38.3	One of his members of this board of directors is a colleague of ours upstairs in MSNE,
0:44.3	Jim Sweeney, who runs the Precourt Institute. We also are pleased that he has been an employer,
0:52.3	thank you very much, of several Mayfield Fellows
0:56.7	and the Mayfield Fellows program who I think we've got him in the room as well for not
1:00.7	only last summer but this summer as well. And like me, he loves both Berkeley and Stanford,
1:08.1	because I'm a Berkeley grad with him, but we also love Stanford. And we're all Stanford football fans this year, aren't we?
1:12.6	Absolutely.
1:13.6	We're all fair weather fans, even if we went to Cal.
1:17.6	So that's very, very cool.
1:19.6	And with a background in SAP and McKinsey, we can forgive him for that.
1:22.6	He's a true entrepreneur.
1:23.6	So let's say hello to him.
1:25.6	Welcome to Stanford.
1:26.6	Thank you very much on
1:27.5	all right yeah I'm never going to live that taping down saying that I actually
1:34.2	preferred a Stanford football over Cal football when I go back to watch the games
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